书目名称 | The Games of Land Dispossession |
副标题 | Urban Governance and |
编辑 | Erick Omena |
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概述 | Provides an original contribution to the literature on conditions of state power in emerging countries.Offers original empirical data focusing on the cases of London, Rio de Janeiro and Johannesburg.E |
丛书名称 | Marx, Engels, and Marxisms |
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描述 | .This book offers a comparative study of state strategies in relation to urban redevelopment projects associated with sports mega-events in Brazil, South Africa and the United Kingdom. It examines urban governance strategies employed to dispossess working-class communities of their land and counteract the subsequent emergence of discontent in various national contexts, offering an intricate analysis of the mechanisms of class dominance operating across diverse regions of the globe. This is based on the application of Gramscian theory concerning the capitalist state and its fluid interplay between coercion and consent. Juxtaposing historical trajectories in the execution of redevelopment initiatives linked to large-scale sporting events, the book offers an in-depth examination of the state-civil society relations shaping the London 2012 and Rio 2016 Olympic Parks, alongside the regeneration initiatives concerning the Maracanã stadium in Rio de Janeiro and the Ellis Park stadiumin Johannesburg – respectively earmarked for the 2014 and 2010 FIFA World Cups. Drawing on insights from a range of disciplines and an explicitly Gramscian analytical framework, this book will appeal to stude |
出版日期 | Book 2023 |
关键词 | urban planning; interdisciplinary studies; urban studies; power; domination strategies; urban regeneratio |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-7536-5 |
isbn_softcover | 978-981-99-7538-9 |
isbn_ebook | 978-981-99-7536-5Series ISSN 2524-7123 Series E-ISSN 2524-7131 |
issn_series | 2524-7123 |
copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Singapor |